why are video games called video games?

i don't see the "video" connection at all.....surely "TV games" would've been more appropriate.

same reason board games are called board games. ---> nonsense

  blicero said:

same reason board games are called board games. ---> nonsense

board games involve boards

1. Television.

a. the elements of television, as in a program or script, pertaining to the transmission or reception of the image (distinguished from audio ).

i've never thought about it

'video arcade' always sounded weird tho

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Video is the technology of electronically capturing, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images representing scenes in motion.

wiki makes sense.

i always called them computer games

because they are

this article/interview suggests one origin, although like most great things, the origin seems to be shrouded in myth.

I know that Ralph Baer called his "Brown Box" project a "TV Game," and I wonder if he might have slided soon after to calling it a "video game" ...

I'm curious about the origin of this term too, if anyone finds any other resources.

brown box

nice one

want to come round to mine after school and slot your games cartridge into my brown box?

  keltoi said:

want to come round to mine after school and slot your games cartridge into my brown box?

plug your joystick into my

  LUDD said:

  blicero said:

same reason board games are called board games. ---> nonsense

 

 

 

board games involve boards

board games -- medium = a board

video games -- medium = video signal

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i guess i never knew what video actually meant until today

lol

It was supposed to be called tv games but the guy who coined the phrase turned out to be a pedophile so they quickly went with the next best idea, video games.